Criteria

All contributions are reviewed by independent referees to ensure
that the following criteria are met.

Contributions should relate to the goals of ISDDE, namely to:

Improve the design and development of educational tools and
processes for other people to use

Increase the impact of good design on educational practice

Build a design community that will move forward toward these
goals

Contributions should be original work of the author(s) and not
have been published elsewhere. They must be free from copyright
restrictions that affect publication here. We normally ask authors to
grant Educational Designer a license to publish the article that is
exclusive for as long as ED remains available; however, we will consider
releasing individual articles under a Creative Commons, or similar
license, where the author requests this.

Content and conceptual considerations

Educational Designer contributions address one or more of the
following:

Design and development processes – The processes that were
followed, should be followed, or should not be followed. The relative
merits and drawbacks of pathways to design when it comes to resource
development, professional development, implementation, diffusion,
and/or scaling should be discussed.

Design premises, principles or considerations – Generalizable
knowledge from one design project to another. The generalizable content
can take many forms: knowledge, attitudes, skills, resources and/or
collaboration that foster or hinder robust design. This could pertain
to the design process, the design context, or to the design itself.

Rich use of exemplification – Demonstrating design and
development processes that can inform others through examples. Where
meaningful, authors are encouraged to make full use of the on-line
opportunities to link and share resources (e.g. online tools;
downloadable products) or information about how designs are used (e.g.
video of teachers, learners, or contexts).

Evidence – Empirical support for the views expressed. Authors
are encouraged to share empirically-grounded design insights, and to
describe how the data and insights were obtained.

Style for contributions

The text should be between 1000 and 10 000 words. This rule will only be varied in exceptional cases. The preferred length for articles is between 3500 and 7500 words.

Please supply text in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx), Open Document (.odt) or plain text format. We will re-format the material for the web, so keep the layout simple and just use the built-in heading and list styles.

Style - We do not rigorously enforce a style but APA style (see Wikipedia) is suitable for references and citations. All references must be in the reference list, and all items in the reference list must be referred to in the main text.

Illustrative exemplification, using embedded links, is encouraged. The material for these links should be provided at the time of manuscript submission as images, PDFs or even (in consultation with the Editors) videos or interactive applets. Software applets created in Flash, Java or HTML5/Javascript can usually be integrated into your article as "pop-ups" if you supply the appropriate files. However, HTML5/Javascript is becoming the standard, and Java and Flash will not work on tablets or mobile devices, so please provide screen shots or mp4 movies as a fall-back. Links to other websites will be treated as references. Contact Daniel Pead to discuss what can be achieved.

If you include illustrations in the main text, please also supply separately the files (e.g. .tiff/.jpg/.png/.ai) wherever possible.
Copyright release must be obtained by the author for any third-party materials you include. After the article has been accepted, and before the article appears, written permission must be supplied to the editors.

Abstract – include a self-contained 100-200 word abstract that will appear on the issue ‘home page’.

Biography and photograph - please include a short (50-250 word) "About the Author" section at the front of your article and, if you are willing, a portrait-style digital photograph (at least 400x400 pixels) of yourself.